The Jaffa Flea Market, or Shuk Hapishpeshim, began in the nineteenth century as a small trading post outside the city walls, serving pilgrims arriving at the port. More than a hundred years later, it still sprawls across the same tangle of streets near the Clock Tower, selling antiques, second-hand clothing, Persian carpets, musical instruments and things that resist easy categorisation.
The market has changed character over the decades. Where traders once haggled over old furniture and oil lamps, restaurants and bars have taken root among the stalls, and the area now runs well into the night.
VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours weave through the flea market district as part of longer routes through Old Jaffa, connecting its Ottoman-era streets to the broader story of a port city that absorbed pilgrims, merchants and conquerors across the centuries.